Study-unit MEDICAL STATISTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Course name	Pharmacy
Study-unit Code	A000778
Curriculum	Comune a tutti i curricula
Lecturer	Massimo Moretti
Lecturers	Massimo Moretti
Hours	42 ore - Massimo Moretti
CFU	6
Course Regulation	Coorte 2019
Supplied	2019/20
Learning activities	Base
Area	Discipline matematiche, fisiche, informatiche e statistiche
Sector	MED/01
Type of study-unit	Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities	Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction	Italian
Contents	General principles of statistics and traditional epidemiology. Risk analysis.
Reference texts	Lantieri P.B., Risso D., Ravera G. "Statistica Medica per le Professioni Sanitarie" - McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Educational objectives	The learning experiences should help students in achieving attitudes and practices on common techniques used in statistics and epidemiology.
Prerequisites	None.
Teaching methods	Face-to-face lessons.
Learning verification modality	Written (open-ended and closed-ended questions) + oral exam.
Extended program	Essentials of Medical Statistics: Numerical/categorical variables. Analysis of numerical outcomes: mean/median, standard deviation, standard error. The normal distribution. Inferential statistics. Comparison of two means: hypothesis tests and p-values. Student's t-test, ANOVA, Chi-square test. Epidemiologic Methods: Epidemiology: definition and scope. Rates of morbidity and mortality. Mortality tables. Population pyramids. Study design: Observational and experimental epidemiology. Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Measures of disease frequency: prevalence and incidence. Analytical epidemiology: cohort studies and case-control studies. Causal and/or noncausal association. Evaluation of relative risk (RR) and odds-ratio (OR); attributable risk. Experimental epidemiology: preventive trials, randomized controlled trials. Evidence-based medicine: systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Risk Analysis: IARC classification for carcinogenicity.